a bit of advice for novice novelists...
No one should ever try to write a novel.
Everyone should be required to write a novel.
That's what it was like.
so i did it. The last chapter, which I felt very sure of before I wrote it, ended up being terrible. And probably quite abrupt. But I'll worry about that over Christmas Vacation.
I really must promote novel writing as one of the best ways to be *present* in your world. But I also should say that its a craft which is exhausting. Keeping up a voice is tricky. Keeping up a voice for every word for 50500 words sprawled across a hundred something pages?! grueling!
Perhaps one of the most delightful outcomes of the new month -- is that i'll stop talking obsessively about writing a novel and regain focus on the rest of the world....
today, i shovel through the piles of paper i politely declined to read for the past two weeks. if I'm lucky i get through them, that is...
Everyone should be required to write a novel.
That's what it was like.
so i did it. The last chapter, which I felt very sure of before I wrote it, ended up being terrible. And probably quite abrupt. But I'll worry about that over Christmas Vacation.
I really must promote novel writing as one of the best ways to be *present* in your world. But I also should say that its a craft which is exhausting. Keeping up a voice is tricky. Keeping up a voice for every word for 50500 words sprawled across a hundred something pages?! grueling!
Perhaps one of the most delightful outcomes of the new month -- is that i'll stop talking obsessively about writing a novel and regain focus on the rest of the world....
today, i shovel through the piles of paper i politely declined to read for the past two weeks. if I'm lucky i get through them, that is...
posted by Redbaerd at 11:32 PM
3 Comments:
Way to go Andy. I'm proud of you, can't wait to read it. Was going to call last night to see if you were making it, but thought you'd be feverishly finishing.
We have been waiting to hear if you made it. I prayed till midnight!! We are anxious to read it!! love you redrudd
Congratulations on finishing! Although the product of my "winning" attempt is all but unreadable, it was a fun learning process. I hope you can say the same!
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